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It may be doubted if any critical observer in 1579 would have ventured even to suspect that the crowning glory of Elizabeth's reign was to be the work of playwrights; yet before she died the genius of Marlowe had blazed and been quenched, Hamlet had appeared on the boards, Jonson's "learned sock" had achieved fame; the men whose names we are wont to associate with the "Mermaid" had most of them already begun their career, even if they had not yet passed the stage of merely adapting, doctoring, and "writing up" for managers the stock-plays in their repertory.
Lacy acted with great temper and moderation; and, in order that the public might not be wholly disappointed, he brought on old stock-plays his brother manager having robbed him of the means and instruments to do otherwise, by taking away the performers." It is also intimated in the same publication that Mr. Garrick had on this occasion "given Mr.
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